Re: Troubles with inequality

2015-02-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:02 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > Thanks Jacque, a gold mine of information as usual. But it’s pretty > obscure, isn’t it? All this started for me because I wanted to test if two > numbers were equal, knowing that they probably weren’t exactly equal to the > last decimal plac

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2015-02-06 Thread Kay C Lan
pretty good, I was just trying to button up this one > specific pitfall. > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Kay C Lan > wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: > > > > > The DB is only about 250 mb, but still too much to do anything

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2015-02-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: > The DB is only about 250 mb, but still too much to do anything comfortably > in memory or stored in a custom property on the machines this is intended > to run on (Older machines sitting in dealership maintenance departments). > Maybe I have

Re: Question re project organization

2015-02-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:40 AM, William Prothero wrote: > I expect the splash app model is the way to go. > Only if you never ever plan on deploying to iOS or you don't believe that OS X's iOSification will get to the point that the same restrictions that prevent splash stacks from being approve

Re: 8 ball

2015-01-28 Thread Kay C Lan
The real question is, will there be some easy to access, logically presented and categorised central store for all the GPL widgets that are currently dreams but hopefully turn into reality when LC 8 arrives? On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Dave Kilroy wrote: > Really looking forward to experime

Re: Invisible character treated as word?

2015-01-27 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:11 AM, David Epstein wrote: > > Are there other characters that are always or sometimes invisible that > cause the same problem? And what is a remedy? > Many thanks. > In the multi-line msg box: put empty into msg repeat with x = 0 to 255 put x & " = " & numToChar(x)

Re: How to access a file on a remote computer

2015-01-18 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I'm not > using LC 7 yet but I managed to get around that one. > > Pete, thanks for the shell 'mount' pointer. I didn't get it to work first try but I'm sure it will be the solution. What version of LC are you using. I've not done anything

Re: How to access a file on a remote computer

2015-01-18 Thread Kay C Lan
Kee, that had me confused and I looked a little deeper. It appears that I've just been lucky in the simple URL way I've been accessing files across my LAN - this is as tested on OS X 10.9.5. The URL method I posted earlier, and the open file for read methods do NOT seem to work unless the actual

Re: How to access a file on a remote computer

2015-01-17 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > I still end up > with files created by my assistant on my machine being unwritable by me, > and vice versa. > Where on the machine is the file being stored so that it's accessable by both of you? Shared?, Public? One problem can be, if you h

Re: How to access a file on a remote computer

2015-01-17 Thread Kay C Lan
Pete two things I notice. Firstly as the file path is enclosed in quotes there is no need to %20 the spaces. Secondly, rather than using localhost you should be using Volumes. So for me, using my hometheatre iMac as a test bed, with a 'a SHARED test file.txt' sitting in the Shared folder of the

Re: Storing and saving a setting in a stand alone

2015-01-17 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 3:43 AM, Richmond wrote: I can imagine a scenario where somebody uses an app both at work and at > home and for > security reasons carries the app around in their pocket on a USB > flash-drive or an SD card > and wants the data to ride with it. > Not sure that makes sense

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

2015-01-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: > It is so weird that I also I hope the mother ship explains in the end. The > bug is now reported to be ‘awaiting build’. Given the (apparently) very > ‘focused’ nature of the bug, it seems miraculous that anyone found it, > least of all me!

Re: Getting the URL out of

2015-01-16 Thread Kay C Lan
If the above format is EXACTLY as the data appears, i.e. --this is exact then this is a very easy to parse. If the line above and below the random URL is not as you've stated then there are other ways to skin the cat. on mouseUp put URL tPathToXMLFile into tData put false into tParse

Re: Storing and saving a setting in a stand alone

2015-01-16 Thread Kay C Lan
Jacque, it's more likely I'm confused. You and Richard are the experts here so I tend to be wary if I'm going against the flow. The original post simply asked about Saving User preferences. Unfortunately there was no mention of OS, nor was there any mention that it used to 'working for ages up un

Re: Storing and saving a setting in a stand alone

2015-01-15 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: On the contrary, as the rest of your post points out, it's increasingly > useful as OS file system permissions get ever more restrictive. > Yes Scott,you are right it's still a valid method, but it's not a method that works for all platforms

Re: Storing and saving a setting in a stand alone

2015-01-15 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Why do you suppose this has survived so long with no one discovering it > until now? > Whilst I may be a Mac fanboy, I'm definitely anti-iOSing of OS X. That said, one of the few side effects may be the herding of LCers to store User dat

Re: [OT] I'm going to go live in a cave

2015-01-15 Thread Kay C Lan
Whoops, don't know what happened there: http://www.amazon.com/Cyber-Clean-25055-Office-Pop-up/dp/B00375JBL4 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferen

Re: How to solve "can't find stack" error

2015-01-14 Thread Kay C Lan
Would seem easy enough to test your theory. Insert the second line of code, the one that reads the cprop, in a try statement. If it catches an error wait 5 seconds (just to really test your theory) and issue the command again. For those not having the problem they are not burdened with a wait, thos

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

2015-01-14 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Roger Guay wrote: > > I get Paul's results when I do it Paul’s way, but I don’t get Graham’s > results when I do it his way via the message box!! > Same here and I'm on Mavericks. And just to confuse the matter even further: put 1.884956 into tVar put isNumber(t

Re: [OT] I'm going to go live in a cave

2015-01-14 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 7:24 PM, FlexibleLearning.com wrote: > where did I put those cotton swabs? > Cotton swabs? I've tried micro nozzle attachments that connect to your vacuum cleaner but by far the most effective way of cleaning all the nooks and crannies of anything, not just electronic equ

Re: [OT] Print to PDF

2015-01-14 Thread Kay C Lan
Thank you gentlemen. I had hoped that there would be a way with their set up as is, these folks are old and techno-shy, but the Chrome or CutePDF + ghostscript seems doable. I'll pass it on. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Plea

Re: POST & Url Encoding

2015-01-13 Thread Kay C Lan
Hi Andy, In your Blog: on mouseUp //the '&' in the string will cause problems so url encode it put urlEncode("black&white") into tencodedString put "animal=" & cat & "&color=" & tencodedString into tmyData post tmyData to url "http://2108.co.uk/code/lc/mypost.lc?"; end mouseUp I think yo

Re: [OT] Print to PDF

2015-01-13 Thread Kay C Lan
Gentlemen, thank you very much, that is good news. Anyone out there with Windows and Firefox and can confirm it has the 'Print to file' with the option to select pdf. The article Paul linked indicates Chrome is as Peter mentions for Debian, but doesn't mention Firefox; or IE.

[OT] Print to PDF

2015-01-12 Thread Kay C Lan
This is not LC related but as you are the largest group of varied OS users I thought I'd ask. I've just discovered that the very basic OS feature of being able to 'Print to PDF' may not be available on all OSs. On OS X it's a feature I use daily. Particularly in your web browser, if you choose Pri

Re: Can't Move Backward

2015-01-12 Thread Kay C Lan
Will not solve Ray's problem but may help him and others in the future from being bitten. What with the consistent flow of updates (thank you), flavours of LC to test (depending if Cocoa or Unicode is your top priority) or if you are just testing verses in production; I was sick and tied of openin

Re: [OT] Slow performance under Yosemite

2015-01-11 Thread Kay C Lan
Thanks for sharing. I've been putting off Yosemite because of all the 'slow' reports. I run two external monitors so this would have surely bitten me. You may just have persuaded me to take the plunge. Are they up to 10.10.2 yet? I use to wait until .1 was out, but these days that seems to just add

Re: replaceText problem

2015-01-11 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > [the]{3}\s(\w+)\s.*?(?=;) > > Using matchText in LC 6.5.2 it fails with error 301 pattern error. > Works fine in LC 7.0.1 on OS X 10.9.5 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.co

Re: iconGravity

2015-01-07 Thread Kay C Lan
I can't seem to find this in the Object Inspector, is it only available via script? If so, maybe a QCC entry to have it added to the Object Inspector otherwise this is sure to remain a hidden gem. On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Devin Asay wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2015, at 2:58 PM, J. Landman Gay >

Re: Licensing

2015-01-07 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: It is indeed confusing... > > But whether it's "detrimental" is a matter of taste. If Peter finally decides NOT to make his lcStackBrowser available to LC Community Edition Users due to confusion and concern as to whether the GPL applies the

Re: Licensing

2015-01-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > I wouldn't worry about that. What Richard's saying would apply if your > end-users were bundling your plugin with the stacks they distribute. > Since your plugin operates wholly within the IDE in the developer's > ecosystem there's no conflict

Re: Is there a way to replace a built-in function?

2015-01-06 Thread Kay C Lan
If there only a few exceptions why not use a switch statement, that way your parser output will be correct for 99.9% of situations and it will only be for the 0.1% cases AND if the User studies the parser output that they will notice something strange - and even then you can cover that. Something l

Re: replaceText problem

2015-01-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Good web site Kay, I've always used a local program on my Mac in the past > but that works better. > yeah, I use a local app - RegExhibit http://roger-jolly.nl/software/ for basic regex but for anything more complex I go to the site, main

Re: replaceText problem

2015-01-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:44 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I read up on this, thinking that LC was implementing some substandard > regex functionality. Turns out this is the state of affairs in the regex > world. > > I don't know where Pete was reading that certain regex characters are not supported,

Re: put URL error

2015-01-04 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > I put the same URL into my browser on the Windows 8 machine and saw the > contents of the file displayed in the browser. > > What happens if instead of using your Web Browser you use an LC Browser instance; i.e. can you display the page in

Re: replaceText problem

2015-01-04 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > Back on the need for a put or a get with a function, it's interesting to > note that you don't have to do that in the message box. Executing - > replaceText("abc","c","z") - in the message box puts "abz" into the message > box result area

Re: Project Browser vs App Browser (was "script scope variables inexplicably becoming unset")

2015-01-04 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > Community Edition can't load password protected stacks because that would > break the rules of open source, That is not my understanding of the situation. There is no reason why an OSS liscensed app can't interact with Closed Source Softw

Re: Project Browser vs App Browser (was "script scope variables inexplicably becoming unset")

2015-01-03 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 2:31 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > because the card and stack references have scrolled off. > > Another +1 for what Jacque wrote. Completely OT but I've decided I like the term 'scrolled off' and will be using it from now on. wife - "where are the kids?" me - "Oh they've sc

Re: Moving a Group Smoothly

2015-01-03 Thread Kay C Lan
I've recently used move and after some troubleshooting am quite happy with the result. I'm on Mavericks - I have not moved to Yosemite due the many complaints on how slow it is - maybe a factor, maybe not. some suggestions. Why haven't you specified a time? or did you preset the moveSpeed proper

Re: replaceText problem

2015-01-03 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > replaceText(pScript,"(^\s*breakpoint$"," ") > > Hi Peter, If this is exactly how your script is written then I see two problems: 1) you need to actually put the result into something so: put replaceText(pScript,"(?im)^\s+breakpoint$","-

Re: I didn't know this...

2014-12-27 Thread Kay C Lan
Nice :-) This isn't limited to variables but for works for fields as well. Taken the liberty of entering an Enhancement Request - 14311 - that the Dictionary entry be amended to include your example and note that replace can also be used on chunks within a container, not just the entire container

Re: BBEdit Language Module for LiveCode

2014-11-30 Thread Kay C Lan
Thank you. On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: > Done: > > https://github.com/Brahmanathaswami/LiveCode-BBEdit-Language-Module > > a public repository. > > > Devin Asay wrote: > >> So after the confusion, is there now a separate github account set up for >> the BBEdit-LiveCo

Re: [OT] baby

2014-11-30 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > Rebecca(mum) and Sarah(bub) are doing well > Monte, that's a strange naming convention: Rebecca(GM) and Sarah(rc4) would be more LC like but I guess it must be a Taswegian thing ;-) Congratulations! __

Re: Markingdown The User Guide

2014-11-19 Thread Kay C Lan
+1 On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Richmond wrote: > Fantastic news: > > http://livecode.com/blog/2014/11/18/markingdown-the-user-guide/ > > Richmond. > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subs

Re: BBEdit Language Module for LiveCode

2014-11-17 Thread Kay C Lan
ov 18, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: > On 17/11/2014 06:50, Kay C Lan wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Ben Rubinstein >> wrote: >> >> Locally: I changed the file name to "LiveCode.plist" >>>> >>> >>

Re: BBEdit Language Module for LiveCode

2014-11-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: > > Locally: I changed the file name to "LiveCode.plist" > > We've been through so many changes of language name that I didn't even > notice the name! > > I don't wish to rain on your parade but I think you are hijacking a completely differen

Re: how are variables passed from functions?

2014-11-15 Thread Kay C Lan
Also from the Dictionary entry for return: To halt the current handler without returning a result, use the exit control structure instead. On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:44 AM, J. Landman Gay > wrote: > > That's what I get for

Re: how are variables passed from functions?

2014-11-15 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:44 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: That's what I get for being a one-trick pony. But it sure seems that having > to keep track of the last result would cause a lot of non-obvious errors. > > Bernard mentioned it might be long-standing behavior that shouldn't be > changed, but

Re: New SQLite binary option

2014-11-11 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > revExecuteSQL gDBID,,"*btData" > Have you tried "tData" without the *b ? I thought the *b was the 'old' way of gettting binary data in SQLite. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.run

Re: BBEdit Language Module for LiveCode

2014-11-10 Thread Kay C Lan
Trevor DeVore created a language module a while back but I think it broke at v9 of BBEdit. Not sure if he's updated it. On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:42 AM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: > Has anyone developed a codeless (ergo livecode-language.plist) language > module for BBEdit? > > BBedit 11 came out a

Re: Benchmarking 7.0 performance

2014-10-30 Thread Kay C Lan
Sorry, hit the Send button accidentally before finding the link. NOT CSV* * For reasons as to why you wouldn't use a comma to separate your values, please refer to this excellent article by Richard Gaskin: http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/csv-must-die.html Unfortunately, using 1 Card

Re: Benchmarking 7.0 performance

2014-10-30 Thread Kay C Lan
es. And now > Rinaldi has come to my rescue again. I have use a LOT of his stuff over all > these years. > > Tim Selander > Tokyo, Japan > > > > On 10/29/14, 1:57 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Tim Selander >> wrote: >> >

Re: Valentina db

2014-10-30 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:42 PM, wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone used Valentina database with LC? > > Yes, for many years now. > If so, what is your experience with it? > > Love it. Especially if you need speed and simplified table relationships - Binary Links are great. > Is it a product that

Re: Dreaming up a benchmarking suite of stacks

2014-10-28 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Malte Brill wrote: > Would anyone of you be willing to participate in setting up such a > testsuite > I hope Peter Haworth reads this and does something for SQLite Whilst I'm sure I could mangle something together that could cover the bare basics of INSERT, UPD

Re: Autosave ???

2014-10-28 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Richmond wrote: I mainly deal with LiveCode learners, and as such it would be nice if such > things as AutoSave > worked straight out of the box without having to add things on. > And that is why Richard pointed out that LC, every single version I've dealt with s

Re: Benchmarking 7.0 performance

2014-10-28 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Tim Selander wrote: > saving changes to the file takes a full 10 seconds or more. > How long does it take in LC 6.x ? When you say 'measly 10MB file - customer database. Are you saying the file is a db file like mySQL or SQLite, or is it just a flat file that yo

Re: Misreported "corruption" between versions fixed

2014-10-27 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > It turns out that the very feature Phil Jimmieson requested,... has > already been implemented > > Ah, a nice example of the benefits of spending a little time to measure twice and cut once. Sure seems to be a whole heap more helpful than

Re: Sort cards doesn't work in 7.0

2014-10-27 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Timothy Miller wrote: > > Right, but these buttons always worked until I upgraded to version 7.0. > Why the change? A bug? A new feature? Or what? > Grab a copy of a 6.6.5 version of your stack that works as advertised; make two copies, appending '665' to one fil

Re: how to disturb newbies

2014-10-27 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:46 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > And since little if any of the User Guide is read, > Which is another pity as so much excellent information is in there. I know your don't really want to hear more 'what should and shouldn't happen' and are really fishing for volunteers

Re: The Bearer Of Bad News

2014-10-27 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Well, that's special. > While I have the Untitled backup drive removed from Spotlight, > Sorry for taking a while to answer this, but yesterday I didn't have my TM HD available so I couldn't be sure. What do you mean by 'removed'. In the Spo

Re: how to disturb newbies

2014-10-25 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I've found in recent years that Dictionary errors have generally been fixed > almost instantly once notice is submitted, almost always prior to the next > release. > Whilst I can't comment on whether the speed at which Dictionary errors are

Re: Can you please enlighten me on the LiveCode versions?

2014-10-18 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > But if you need stability, the most recent public release build is the > best bet, as those are the versions the community has tested and can no > longer find show-stoppers for. > > An excellent overview, thank you. I think the only thing

Re: 3 questions about your coding habits

2014-10-16 Thread Kay C Lan
1. Burried deep deep within the Documents folder. 3 levels down I have a 'my stacks' folder and in there each project has it's own folder, usually because there is hodge podge of ancilliary files; some required by the stack, i.e. SQLite file or folder full of images, but also files not required by

Re: problem with counting words

2014-10-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > a=1,b=2,c=3 > > That's pretty basic and is easily handled by: replace comma with cr Then just work through the lines and the itemDelimiter to =. What I was thinking about was: "A","B","C","D" etc and being able to specify the chunkDe

Re: problem with counting words

2014-10-14 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > There's a qcc enhancement request out there for a new chunk type ("chunk") > along with a "delimited by" clause. > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Terence Heaford > > wrote: > > > set the wordDelim to space > > set the wordDelim to “*” >

Re: problem with counting words

2014-10-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: > On Oct 12, 2014, at 9:03 PM, J. Landman Gay > wrote: > > > My motto is: Bytes be damned, let the engine handle it. > > > > I say right out loud that is totally appropriate for this millenium. > .Jerry > Yes, thankfully Bytes don't take up

Re: problem with counting words

2014-10-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:16 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: One thing to mention though is that these custom solutions won't transfer > to stacks that are distributed to others > The other thing to remember is a plugin can't be edited as easily as any other stack. If Larry is just starting out makin

Re: lock screen question and detect field question

2014-10-12 Thread Kay C Lan
Accidently hit the Send button. Here is what I meant to type: lock screen if the label of btn "selectMethod" = "Output" then set the height of fld "multipurpose" to 123 set the width of fld "multipurpose" to 456 set the loc of fld "multipurpose" to 200,200 etc pu

Re: lock screen question and detect field question

2014-10-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:33 AM, wrote: > Maybe I can just create all the fields I will ever possibly need and then > just show and hide them. > That is certainly an approach I've used many many times, especially if the number of fields is large. If the number of fields is smalll, say an input

Re: problem with counting words

2014-10-12 Thread Kay C Lan
Thanks, > Larry > > - Original Message - From: "Kay C Lan" > To: "How to use LiveCode" > Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 8:09 PM > > Subject: Re: problem with counting words > > > Open the User Guide (from the IDE Help Menu select 'User

Re: lock screen question and detect field question

2014-10-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:05 AM, wrote: > > 1) I have a program where I'm creating and deleting fields. Why are you creating them and deleting them? Why aren't the fields already there and you just show and hide them? ___ use-livecode mailing list us

Re: problem with counting words

2014-10-12 Thread Kay C Lan
Open the User Guide (from the IDE Help Menu select 'User Guide' and type Library in your pdf viewer's search box. Chapter 5.8 'Extending the Message Path' should come up as the first hit. This also may be helpful: http://lessons.runrev.com/m/4071/l/11787-how-to-call-a-function-or-command-in-anoth

Re: problem with counting words

2014-10-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > > sort lines of myListOfNames by word of -1 each > > sort lnes of myListOfNames by word -1 of each Hate it when I hit send and then immediately see an error in my typing. ___ use-live

Re: problem with counting words

2014-10-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > I hear ya', but like so many other oddities in the language this one came > from Apple, > Sheer brilliance! One of the first analogies of HyperCard was that it was a an electronic rolodex. Here is a list of names: Abu MusabAl-Zarqaw

Re: Any way to do this?

2014-10-11 Thread Kay C Lan
Hi Charles, If I remember your original post asked about copying multiple images, so my suggestion was for images. I'm not sure what you want is possible because LC Groups are only recognised by LC, as far as I'm aware there in NO other application (other than MetaCard) that recognises what a grou

Re: Accessing properties in sub stack fields

2014-10-08 Thread Kay C Lan
Try: put the noType of (the name of the focusedObject) && the focusedObject into msg The reference returned by fucusedObject is not in the format that is used for the syntax of a custom property. You need to shorten it by referring to just 'the name'. HTH On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:39 AM, John

Re: Reading Files

2014-10-08 Thread Kay C Lan
Technically I'd think yes, practically I'd think there are any factors that would cause it to fail, obviously the size of the data being the most obvious. Reading from one external HD and writing the file to another external HD would be your best bet. I assume your talking about some LC custom sol

Re: quotes question

2014-10-08 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:30 AM, wrote: > > create field > set the name of the last field to ("myfield" & x) > Looks like you're starting to think like a LiveCoder :-) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: How is the LC textsize converted into RTF?

2014-10-08 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Hello, > > I am struggling to keep the wanted textSize from a LiveCode text in a RTF > file. > >From another thread about RTF, this Important Note in the Dictionary under 'RTFText' may help: Important! Because the RTF standard does not i

Re: from here to there

2014-10-07 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Simon wrote: > OK, then what is this? > >put "this is a sentence" into temp >if the number of chars of temp >= 1 then put the last char of temp > Well I barely passed English so again, Richmond is the one to give us the explanation of the correct grammar, bu

Re: Screen updating i version 7

2014-10-06 Thread Kay C Lan
I'm on OS X 10.9.5, MBP with retina display and at a screen resolution of 2048,1280 it all looks good to me. Even at 2880,1800 everything seems OK. This is in the IDE 7.0 RC2. This is with a basic stack that has a large field that has large amounts of data changed. Also if I go to the Dictionary a

Re: from here to there

2014-10-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:37 AM, wrote: > It is sort of strange to me that I want more than 1 word and so I used > "words", As to how grammatically correct it is I'm sure Richmond could tell us, but I like to think of it this way, I'm not actually specifying plural what I'm doing is specifying a

Re: how to detect insertion point

2014-10-05 Thread Kay C Lan
Maybe the focusIn messgae might help. On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:30 AM, wrote: > Hello, > > I have several fields... myField1, myField2, etc. > > When the user clicks within a field, I want to detect the (?? selection, > insertion ??) and run a script. > > I've experimented for over an hour with

Re: create a new label field

2014-10-05 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:50 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > I think it's misleading for new users because it gives the impression that > there are different types of button and field controls. > Not to mention menubars, which again new users may think is another object altogether but surprise surpr

Re: RTF or TXT

2014-10-03 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Phil Davis wrote: > > on mouseUp > set the rtfText of fld 1 to the clipboardData["RTF"] > end mouseUp > That looks like a simple answer but there are two entries in the Dictionary under RTFText that might steer you in an ever so slightly different direction: N

Re: [ANN] Splat-O-Nym Game Released

2014-10-03 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > I believe the *proper* English spelling is: al-lew-min-nium > Americans adopted -ium for most of the 19th century, with aluminium appearing in Webster's Dictionary of 1828. In 1892, however, Charles Martin Hall used the -um spelling in an adver

Re: [BUG][SHELL] Could Others Please Test This OS X/Linux

2014-10-01 Thread Kay C Lan
still get > different answers it is of course a bug. Will test when I get to my computer. > > Skickat från min iPhone > >> 1 okt 2014 kl. 10:47 skrev Fraser Gordon : >> >> >>> On 1 Oct 2014, at 04:17, Kay C Lan wrote: >>> >>> Terminal enter t

Re: [BUG][SHELL] Could Others Please Test This OS X/Linux

2014-09-30 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > Thanks gentlemen, that's enough to start the ball rolling. Bug #13572 Scott, Tim, Warren and Richard I've included your findings. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runr

Re: [BUG][SHELL] Could Others Please Test This OS X/Linux

2014-09-30 Thread Kay C Lan
Thanks gentlemen, that's enough to start the ball rolling. May I assume Scott and Tim that your LC resides in the System level Applications folder. Mine resides in the User level Applications folder and may be an extra clue as to why, for me, Terminal > LC, whilst for you both it's Terminal < LC.

[BUG][SHELL] Could Others Please Test This OS X/Linux

2014-09-30 Thread Kay C Lan
Before I go ahead and submit a bug report I'd like others to test and report their findings. This is just a simple shell script which should list the entire contents (folders and files) of the Users account. In Terminal enter the following: find $PWD The output will be on each line the full path

Re: File Walker

2014-09-30 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I would encourage you to file a bug report on that. > > Even if there turns out to be a good explanation, it needs to be documented. > Are you indicating that you are or aren't seeing the same thing on Linux. I'm on OS X 10.9.5, and this w

Re: File Walker

2014-09-29 Thread Kay C Lan
If I enter the following into OS X's Terminal: find $PWD the output is the over half a million folders and files in my /Users/[your name here]/ directory. So none of the System level stuff or anything from other User accounts if they exist on your computer. It does include though all hidden files

Re: How to create a List of My Functions and My Commands

2014-09-28 Thread Kay C Lan
Dick, Thanks so much. Undocumented functions, you gotta love them. Actually, gotta love this List, so much hidden information revealed. Thanks again. On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Dick Kriesel wrote: > On Sep 27, 2014, at 8:34 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > >> At this stage it looks li

How to create a List of My Functions and My Commands

2014-09-27 Thread Kay C Lan
I know how to get a list of LCs inbuilt function and commands but is there a quick way to get all my own handler names that are contained within an entire stack? I can get customProperties["mySet"], but I can't find customFunctions or customCommands. At this stage it looks like I have to step thr

Re: Replacing Characters

2014-09-26 Thread Kay C Lan
Assuming tBigList contains your data and it is a tab separated list. set the itemDelimiter to tab repeat for each item tSearchThis in tBigList if (char 3 of tSearchThis = "D") then put "+" into char 3 of tSearchThis end if put tSearchThis & tab after tNewList end repeat --remove the trailing ta

Re: re: sorting question

2014-09-26 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Dave Kilroy wrote: > For others wondering what the cause was, it was likely that the spaces in > each item were confusing things It is impossible that the spaces in front of each item could cause the sort NOT to change the list at all, which is what Larry reported

Re: searching for chars within a string

2014-09-25 Thread Kay C Lan
A simple way would be just to use basic matchText() for each single letter and regex matchText() for repeating letters. P.*P will find double Ps, P.*P.*P will find triple Ps etc. Seems to be relatively fast but if you have very large data sets other alternatives would need to be investigated. in

Re: Is there a problem with the On-Rev email server

2014-09-23 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D wrote: We have enabled SPF and DKIM for our account in cPanel under email->authentication. > Matthias, Thank you for that, I wasn't aware of those settings so I took a look. SPF (outgoing) was already enabled whilst DKIM (incoming) was not,

Re: Is there a problem with the On-Rev email server

2014-09-22 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > Use the smtp server your isp provides, or use gmail's smtp servers. > Not sure my ISP would be any better than on-rev; they are barely competent with just connecting me to the Internet and am only with them because my previous provider was so

Is there a problem with the On-Rev email server

2014-09-22 Thread Kay C Lan
Just sent an email to my mum, old address nothing changed, and I received this Mail Delivery System message: 554 Your access to this mail system from 46.105.105.217 has been rejected due to the sending MTA's poor reputation. 46.105.105.217 is nowhere near my current IP address. The SMTP server I

Re: Any way to do this?

2014-09-22 Thread Kay C Lan
on mouseUp copy image "my1stimg" and image "my2ndimg" and image "mynthimg" end mouse up As it sounds like some or all of your images may not be on the same card as the button, you will need to use the full address of the image, ie image "mynthimg" of cd "my1stCard" Interestingly you can also:

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